I don't remember when I first encountered this:
In the last few months I have noticed an annoying problem involving text
input focus and some mouse interaction problems in web browsers
(firefox and opera) on two machines (desktop and laptop) running Fedora 22
but not on my desktop PC running SL 6.
I don't yet know the *exact* description of the problem, i.e. precisely
when it does and does not occur, but when it happens focus doesn't follow
the mouse, as it used to (and still does on SL 6).
The annoying result is that sometimes I can't type in a url or search term
in the address bar of a browser, or edit an existing url.
Sometimes in that situation I can *paste* it in if copied from somewhere
else. That is the annoying solution I've been forced to use from time to
time.
Sometimes, but not always, when that happens, I discover that text I
intended to type into the address bar is being treated as search text in
another browser window (same browser -- i.e. firefox or opera) and no
amount of closing and opening windows of that browser or clicking will
shift the focus.
Sometimes if I am typing into a text window in a web page, and have to look
at another web page to get my answer, I can't get text to continue going
into the first web page. If I switch to a different workspace and come back
it sometimes works.
I recently learnt that I can sometimes shift the focus as desired by using
my keyboard commands to switch workspace. E.g. I have two functions GoLEFT
and GoRIGHT
Function "GoLEFT"
{ f.prevworkspace
f.unfocus
}
Function "GoRIGHT"
{ f.nextworkspace
f.unfocus
}
The former is associated with CTRL+Left arrow, the latter with CTRL+Right
arrow, so I can quickly move around my 12 workspaces [and ctwm, unlike
several others I have tried, sensibly does the necessary 'wrap around' from
workspace 1 to 12, or 12 to 1 one of my main reasons for liking CTWM!].
When I have the focus problem I sometimes find that if I go RIGHT then go
LEFT, to return to the original workspace, I often find I can then type
input where I want to. But it doesn't always work and I've not yet found
the pattern.
I would prefer not to have to do that. I could try mapping f.unfocus
to an unused key command to achieve that effect, but that should not be
necessary.
Does anyone know if something has changed in X window focus management
that could be interacting badly with CTWM? I have so far noticed this only
in browsers, but most of my work is reading and typing text in an editor in
an xterm window, which isn't affected.
My default focus settings are:
All of these are unset:
#SloppyFocus
#ClickToFocus
#NoTitleFocus
#NoIconManagerFocus
#SaveWorkspaceFocus
This is set, but turning it off doesn't seem to make a difference
AutoFocusToTransients
Has anyone else encountered anything similar?
Thanks.
Aaron
